Clapboard-joint



UNITED STAPLES PATEN FFICE.

WILLIAM BAKER, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

CLAPB GARD-JOINT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 10,903, dated May 16,1854;` Reissued September To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM BAKER, of`

the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in the Preparation and Joining ofOlapboards for the Siding of Houses and other Buildings; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The nature and principal obj ect of my invention is so to construct andform the boards for the siding of houses, that in put ting them togetherand nailing them to the frame of the building the heads of the nails maybe covered, while at the same time the chief characteristic ofclapboarding, the overlapping of one board upon another for shedding thewater, shall bepreserved.

In Figure l of the annexed drawings A and B represent transversesect-ions of two of my clapboards as nailed to the frame of thebuilding, showing by the connection of the two at C, the manner in whichthey are dressed and put together. N, N, is a stud of the building frameshowing the manner in which they are laid against the studs to whichthey are to be nailed.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a. single board, shown separate fromthe building, exhibit-ing the character of the dressing on therespective edges, A being t-he upper, and B being the lower edge whenlaid on.

The configuration of the cut a, b, e, in the lower edge of the board, isclearly shown in both figures of the drawings. Itis made to correspondto the upperedge A, so that they lit together as seen at the conjunctionC, (Fig. l). The line e, in this cut, is not made directly down the edgeof the` board parallel to the rear line of the board, but is a littleoblique, corresponding to the front line C; otherwise, it is evident, itV.would not make a close fit to the other board. The dressing of Itllrieupper edge of the board is shown at It is plain that if the board B,(Fig. 1,) is iirst laid on and nailed near its upper edge, as shown atF, that the lower edge of the next board A, when brought to its place,as shown in the figure, will be held securely by the lock a, withoutnailing, and that the nail therefore may be driven in this board also atF, near the upper edge, and so on with each successive board. It is alsoplain that each successive board, by its extended lip D, will cover theheads of the nails driven in the preceding board as here shown. It isproper to make the lip D, about three-fourths of an inch in length, bothfor the purpose of effectually shedding the water, and to cover theheads of the nails as here described. The lips a, and z', are each aboutone-fourth of an inch long.

The drawings exhibit the clapboards of the full ordinary width andthickness, and the several members of the joint of the proper relativedimensions substantially.

Having thus described my invention, and the objects to be attained byit, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the lock a, in the rear of the joint, with theextended lip D, in front, constructed and used in conjunction, for thepurposes of efecting the objects of the invention as specified, t-hewhole being constructed, combined and arranged substantially in themanner and for the purposes herein set forth.

v WM. BAKER.

fitnesses Wa R. ANTHONY,

. A. l/V. GREEN.

[FIRST PRINTED 1913.]

